New York Times Google Maps Travel Mashup

Everyone is surely tired by now of the ludicrous “People of the Year is You” award from Times Magazine.

So turn instead to this neat Google Maps mash-up at the New York Times on travel destinations for 2007. While clicking on the happy little Times symbol to read an article about that area is certainly cool, shouldn’t there be another way to access that same information? I guess you can search for it in their nifty search bar, but perhaps a sidebar with links to each article would serve as well.